In Common Things: Poetry Reading with Jefferson Singer (NWL)

Jefferson Singer's meditative lyric and narrative poems trace patterns of relationships—e.g., husband and wife, parent and child) over a full life course encompassing origins, conflicts, steady habits, and loss. They explore the roots of creativity and spiritual awakening with gratitude for every common and uncommon pleasure—“the hallelujah of azaleas everywhere” and “the spark, the light, the Yes.”

Jefferson Singer is the Faulk Foundation Professor of Psychology at Connecticut College in New London, Connecticut, and a clinical psychologist with a psychotherapy practice in West Hartford, CT. After a long career of publishing articles and books in the fields of personality, psychotherapy, and autobiographical memory, he has increasingly devoted himself to writing poetry and has had poems appear in Sixfold, The Raven’s Perch, Orenaug Mountain Poetry Journal, the Medical Literary Messenger, and the Winter Glimmerings anthology. In Common Things (Shanti Arts Press) is his first book of poetry. An avid hiker, he loves spending time on the trail with his wife, but also reading to his young grandchildren.